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Quality of Employment Survey, 1973-1977: Panel (ICPSR 7696)

Principal Investigator(s):Quinn, Robert P.; Staines, Graham

Summary:

This study contains data on the working conditions of
1,455 workers aged 16 and older who were working for pay for 20 or
more hours per week in the United States in the period 1973-1977.
This survey is a panel study version of the cross-section study,
QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1977: CROSS-SECTION (ICPSR 7689).
The surveys were undertaken by the investigators to provide an
overview of working conditions in the American labor force. The
aims of these surveys and many of the question... (more info)

This study contains data on the working conditions of
1,455 workers aged 16 and older who were working for pay for 20 or
more hours per week in the United States in the period 1973-1977.
This survey is a panel study version of the cross-section study,
QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1977: CROSS-SECTION (ICPSR 7689).
The surveys were undertaken by the investigators to provide an
overview of working conditions in the American labor force. The
aims of these surveys and many of the questions that were asked
were comparable to those of the related collections, SURVEY OF WORKING
CONDITIONS, 1969-1970 (ICPSR 3507), and QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT SURVEY,
1972-1973 (ICPSR 3510). The major measures used in each of the four
surveys were the frequency and severity of labor standards problems,
the quality of employment indicators that were shown to be predictors
of job satisfaction, the job satisfaction indices themselves, and the
ratings of important job facets. Respondents were asked questions about
many facets of their job situations and other areas of their lives that
might be affected by their jobs in order to assess the impact of work
on them. Questions included job tension, security, physical health, job
satisfaction, and financial well-being. A series of questions regarding
job expectations was also asked. Additional questions probed respondents'
feelings about their overall contentment with their jobs and with life
in general. Other variables probed respondents' feelings about their
work culture, physical work environment, discrimination at work, job
fringe benefits, and labor unions, as well as child care provisions,
nature of time spent with children and spouse, use of leisure time, and
electoral participation. Demographic variables provide information on
age, sex, marital status, race, place of birth, education, and income.

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Universe:
A national probability sample of 1,455 currently employed
workers aged 16 and older who were working for pay for 20 or more
hours per week in the United States in the period 1973-1977.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) This panel study version of the survey includes data
on all respondents from the 1973 survey and those respondents who were
reinterviewed in the 1977 survey. Noninterviews in 1977 are assigned
missing data for all 1977 variables except 1977 sampling information,
which is indicated for both respondents and non-respondents. (2) The codebook is provided by
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